Fw: Re: [GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)

Mon Apr 24 17:24:29 EDT 2006

Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)

What you need is a Teletype paper tape winder. I have two of them and they
work just great for rewinding the tape as it comes out of the TD.
There must be maney of thease around and are found on ebay once in a while.

-------Original Message-------

From: gil smith
Date: 04/24/06 16:05:30
To: Eugene Hertz
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)

Hi Eugene:

That's a darned good question. I have always just let the tape spew on the
floor (which I think is kinda cool), and then wound it back up. But I
don't read tapes much.

In a "production" situation, it gets messier, so I'll let the greenkeys
folks comment on this.

thanks,

gil

At 01:08 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote:

>Gil, I might be willing. Although I have a question about tape
>management. I just got my first 28 asr and hence my first machine that
>handled tape. As I play around with it punching and reading tape it occurs
>to me, tapes are hard to manage. What I mean is, is there some kind of
>source spool /take up spool that can be arranged to avoid the giant pool
>of tape sprawled all out on the floor? Is there a better way to manage
>long tapes?
>
>Eugene
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gil smith [mailto:gil at baudot.net]
> >Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 02:59 PM
> >To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> >Cc: 'John Foust', 'David Freeman'
> >Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)
> >
> >Hi folks:
> >
> >I have mentioned this before and had no takers. If someone wants to save
> >tapes, I will ship you a loaner unit to make it easy (just ship it back
> >when you are done). One catch: you must make the pic files public, by
> >sending them to Bill Bytheway for inclusion in the pic library at
> >rtty.com. Reasonable enough eh?
> >
> >I have a little 28-TD which I modified to plug directly into a 232
> >port. You just plug it in to your pc, and then read tapes into a program
> >like RTTYArt to save and name the file. I suppose Heavymetal would work
as
> >well. The TD is geared for 100-wpm, so the read will (reasonably)
> >fast. You PC must have a serial port compatible with the above
> >program(s). The TD does not take much desk space, and there are just
power
> >and 232 cables hanging out.
> >
> >If someone is willing to read a library of tapes (like the set from John
> >Sheetz), send me your address, and I'll ship this guy off to you. Such a
> deal.
> >
> >gil
> >
> >
> >At 06:07 AM 4/24/2006, David Freeman wrote:
> >>John,
> >>
> >>Can you send me Bob's contact info and I'll see if we can get going on
> this.
> >>It's pretty easy to set up your AFSK output from the TU into MMTTY and
log
> >>the data to your hard drive. An editor quickly cleans up any errors and
> burn
> >>it to a CD. It just takes hours and hours and hours of machine time. I
> think
> >>I can get four or five going at once.
> >>
> >>Cutting tapes is even easier, heck I've let my M14 run all night and
found
> >>everything still humming along the next morning.
> >>
> >>While storage/exchange on CD is certainly easier. The purist in me says
> >>paper tape should be archived as well. Once this project is done, I'm a
> little
> >>saddend by the thought that 1,500 RTTY PIX will be so easily obtained.
> Where
> >>is the challenge in that. And once we all have a copy, there won't be
much
> >>reason to exchange them on the air. Of course we can create new PIX
> >>but that is so damn easy now it's not funny. That era has ended....
> >>
> >>Dave, WW8S
> >>
> >>
> >>On Sun 4/23/2006 6:02 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote :
> >>
> >> > At 09:12 AM 4/20/2006, David Freeman wrote:
> >> > >I volunteered to receive/store/archive tapes, and even redistribute
> >> them in exchange
> >> > >for blank tape. The last large collection I know about was John
Sheetz
> >> estate's extensive collection. I think Bob Camp took possesion of it. I
> >> don't know what's become of Bob
> >> > >since he was once very active posting to several reflectors but now
is
> >> unheard from.
> >> > >I'd still like to get a copy of the Sheetz collection since it was
one
> >> of the most complete and accurate assemblies of RTTY pix around.
> >> >
> >> > Ah, a volunteer. I sent a message to Bob Camp. He recently changed
jobs
> >> > and became very busy. He admirably rescued the Sheetz tapes, but now
> >> > he's willing to hand off the archiving to someone else.
> >> >
> >> > Duping paper tapes? Because I'm more computer-oriented than
> ham-oriented,
> >> > I regard the more important task as converting the old tapes to
> >> > computer-readable data files so they can be archived, cloned and
> shared.
> >> >
> >> > As I understand it, we're talking about fourteen cubic feet of tapes.
> >> >
> >> > - John
> >> >
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